1 Clement 35.11

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Warning to those who forget God.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:68

σύνετε δὴ ταῦτα, οἱ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι τοῦ θεοῦ, μήποτε ἁρπάσῃ ὡς λέων, καὶ μὴ ᾖ ὁ ῥυόμενος.

English · Claude translation

Understand these things, you who forget God, lest he seize you like a lion and there be no one to deliver.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:68 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.

Scripture

Ps 50:22 (49:22 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): τοῦ θεοῦ. μήποτε → τοῦ θεοῦ, μήποτε.

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1 Clem. 35.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/35/11/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 35.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/35/11/).

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